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Sat 4 Jan, 2003 11:26 am
This is cool! A site that lists all the roads in north america. Descriptions of the terrain, the roads.... facts about speed limits, on and off-ramps, points of interest..... Love it!
US Roads
Great site k...and can I tell you...I found this link most amusing, and giving some insight to the whole Somerville vortex problem?
http://www.geocities.com/chesler.geo/signs/index.html
Haha! That's great Cass.
I wonder if there's a way to capture on film how rte 28N on cape cod goes any which way but North for miles and miles.
Or how while driving South on 128 you are also driving North on 93/95
Quinn - that's one heck of a funny link. I can hardly wait to actually bring a car to Somerville. I'll have to take a long holiday and just follow those signs around in circles and circles.
I particularly liked the one which had 2 south and 1 north sign for the same ramp.
See, now that's why people think we're bad drivers.
Yeah, you can find this stuff just about everywhere....its pretty interesting for tourists and transplants
pretty interesting for those of us that have been here so long we still get lost
its amazing actually
I really liked the one where the 93 or 95 sign was hidden...thats helpful
The old signs hanging out are interesting to...you must look for the little 4" sign on the bottom of the snow emergency sign to figure out thats the right you must take for a major highway....ugh
Taking all of this into consideration actually shows how good of drivers we are jeeshh
Highway 1 in California is a great drive. It's the coastal route, and you pass many beautiful landscapes. c.i.
I love northern drivers! And am very thankful that my Dad (native New Yorker) taught me how to drive.
Florida is extremely easy to navigate.....yet, we have the WORST drivers!
Looking forward to checking the site out!
Rae- You just HAD to bring up Florida drivers, GRRRR IMO, they are the WORST. In my area we have the little old ladies in Cadillacs and Lincoln Town cars, who can't see over the steering wheel, and drive at 25 mph in a 45 mph zone. Then you have the locals, in their pickup trucks, who, being pissed off at the little old ladies, cut in and out, at very high rates of speed.
On I 75, where the speed limit is 70, I sometimes go 80, and get passed in the dust. Then you have the illegals, who probably have no insurance. They drive the same monster cars as the little old ladies, but their cars are 20-25 years old, and usually belch white smoke. They drive v-e-r-y
s-l-o-w-l-y, so as not to be stopped by a cop.
Don't start me on the roads in Florida, where the signs are often a couple of feet from an exit, so by the time that you see it, you've already passed it.
I love northern drivers, being one myself. Everywhere you go there are bad drivers. In New Mexico everyone drove slow and spacy as if on pot. Road rules were options. In the S. East, everytime someone did something really dumb, I'd look at the plate and they'd be from one of (I can't remember which) the Carolinas. Boston, well, Boston is infamous, but I think we drive well given the circumstances.
Anyone ever been to italy?
being a native of the southwest and having friends from Leeds in northern England that came to visit for their first time in the US, so i take them on a 3 week tour of the 4 corners (side trip to Las Vegas) and coming through Monument Valley we get stopped on the highway as a cattle drive goes through. Seems as though in England, highways don't get closed for cattle drives so it was an unusual expereince for them.
I fell in love with those cattle stops they lay down in the road - simple and effective.
kinda like a moose I would think
You've never had to stop and wait for a moose?
I must just be lucky.
Sorry, Phoenix! Ya just knew it would get out eventually though, right?
In Florida, at least, I've had to stop for turtles, gators and panthers.
A few years ago, some idiot was shining a halogen light on a protected nest of turtles (as they were hatching) and the babies all walked up on to Highway A1A ~ out of 436 turtles, I think only seven were killed. Before the Sea Turtle Society could get out there, most of the little ones had been rescued by people who stopped.
Moose are a LOT bigger than cows. A lot LOT LOT bigger.
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